Airport and Hosting

[[d]-[p a t]]

I am aware that there are a lot of other threads about hosting with an airport. but, the reason i am posting this is because I really dont understand the things on how to fix it... like in Vapor's thread. I know that some of you could help me figure a way to get around this, so please post any suggestions.

[Jeb]

I'm really not that familiar with airport, but its a router (from what i thought)
so if you wanted to host you'd have to do some port forwarding.
depending on the router you do that different ways.
some routers you can type the ip into your browser and configure it like that.
or if your unlucky you'll end up using tellnet, and if you don't know what telnet is already, you wouldn't be able to fix it.
check for shit on google

[|MP|Buccaneer]

Airport is a router.  You use the Airport Admin Utility to set it up, not a browser or telnet secession.

As for hosting with an airport, it's a little complicated.  You used to not be able to do it, but with the latest firmware updates, port forwarding is working (which wasn't working very well in the past).

You need to forward a range of ports to the IP that it assigns to the mac you want to host with.  Each port is forwarded individually, to the same port number on that Mac.  WARNING - This means that no other mac's on your LAN can play RS, because you are routing all those ports to your machine, which will override any other Macs.  So if you and a buddie are on the airport, you can't host and him play at the same time.

Hope this helps.

[[d]-[p a t]]

OK, Buc, I am in Jaguar right now at the Airport Admin Utility setup. I will try messing around with it but not too much because i don't want to hurt it. Could you send me a short list of instructions that I could work off of? thanks
-PaT

[[d]-[p a t]]

OK, when I try to set it up, it limits the number of ports i put in. any idea what is wrong with that?